in class #12

                In the four videos I just watch I was really shocked. I didn’t realize how much stuff in this world was copied; I always assumed things as original. It goes way back when we realize how stuff just came about. I think that it is hard to say what is fair and what isn’t when it comes to plagiarism because yes somebody may have copied them but who did they copy? I never thought of things as of being built upon the base of ordinary. In order for everyone to become creative they must stick with what they know and what they know is what everyone else knows. No one person can go their whole life without making bases off of something they got from someone else. Also I think that it is right that too many people place blame on someone when they copy them and they get at them like cats and dogs but when they themselves do it, it’s allowed and they don’t find anything wrong with it. I find it a little hesitant believing that creativity isn’t much of a realistic thing because somebody thought about something else in order to create it. There isn’t a way that something was just there, they had to create it. I agree when they said that many things are derived from others though, this is a true statement, even some sort of creativity is derived from a previous thought or someone else’s thought to that extent. It all makes sense but then everything is stolen so where is the sanity in getting someone who stole from you when you stole from someone else in items such as songs or programs. Somebody somewhere came up with the same thing that someone else has thought of or done the same thing, they just didn’t get the recognition or they were forgotten along the way.